Awards Season Feature Post

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Feb 26, 2016

Final Predictions for the Academy Awards 2016

The Revenant

They are what they are and they'll be what they refuse not to be. Recent years have made it worse when it should be the opposite and hence my interest, involvement and excitement for this big ceremony has gone down the drain. I couldn't imagine things ever being this way, always giving them a free pass for their refusal to accept, embrace or adapt art and craft but my soul has dried up.The Revenant will win this year making it the worst best picture winner in decades. Leonardo DiCaprio will win for a good performance but hardly the one he deserves to be awarded for. With the exception of Daniel Day-Lewis (three times), when has a grear actor with continous excellence and acknowledgement won an Oscar for the right role at the right time? Category frauds, lazy obvious nods, reliance on being force fed movie screeners, biases, internal issues, external problems... here are my predictions for the Academy Awards 2016:I am ready to be wrong on some of these. Who cares?Best Picture:The RevenantBest Director:Alejandro G. Inarritu, The RevenantBest Actor in a Leading Role:Leonardo DiCaprio, The RevenantBest Actress in a Leading Role:Brie Larson, RoomBest Actor in a Supporting Role:Sylvester Stallone, CreedBest Actress in a Supporting Role:Alicia Vikander, The Danish GirlBest Original Screenplay:SpotlightBest Adapted Screenplay:The Big ShortBest Foreign Language Film:Son of SaulBest Animated Feature:Inside OutBest Documentary Feature:AmyBest Editing:Mad Max: Fury RoadBest Cinematography:The RevenantBest Production Design:Mad Max: Fury RoadBest Costume Design:Mad Max: Fury RoadBest Make-Up and Hair:Mad Max: Fury RoadBest Visual Effects:Star Wars: The Force AwakensBest Original Score:The Hateful EightBest Original Song:Til It Happens To You, The Hunting GroundBest Sound Mixing:Mad Max: Fury RoadBest Sound Editing:Mad Max: Fury RoadBest Live Action Short:Ave MariaBest Animated Short:World of TomorrowBest Documentary Short:Body Team 12